Conlangs: Na'vi, Dothraki, and Llárriésh 5/5

This was a talk given by me (Richard Littauer, Taronyu, Lajaki) on October 6th, 2010 at the University of Edinburgh Linguistics and English Language Society Soap Vox Lecture Series. Around 75 people were in attendance, as I covered my role as the lexicographer of the Na'vi Language (created for the film Avatar by Paul Frommer) on http://www.learnnavi.org, as the cofounder of http://www.dothraki.org, a site dedicated to the Dothraki language created by David Peterson for the HBO adaptation of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, and as the creator of the language Llárriésh for a One Month, One Language challenge, documented on http://llama.conlang.org. I also covered conlangs, in general, and the justification for this obscure and arcane hobby.

The Edinburgh University Linguistics and English Language Society has lectures fortnightly. More information can be found on http://langsoc.eusa.ed.ac.uk

I apologise for the dark room.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Na'vi
• Dothraki
• Llárriésh
• Llama
• Taronyu
• Learn Na'vi
• Lajaki
• Littauer
• Conlangs